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Wednesday, May 5, 2027
Wednesday, May 5, 2027 falls on a Wednesday. It is day 125 of the year, ISO week 18, in Q2.
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Wednesday, May 5
May 5, 2027 is day 125 of 365, ISO week 18, in Q2. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Taurus.
Day of year125
ISO week18
QuarterQ2
Days left240
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- New Moon
- Lunar age
- 28.9 days
- Illumination
- 0%
- Season
- Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Zodiac
- Taurus
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- /date/2027-05-05
Today's Celebrations
May 5
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Children's Day (Japan, South Korea)
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Angelus of Jerusalem
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Aventinus of Tours
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Blessed Caterina Cittadini
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Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
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Frederick the Wise (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
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Gotthard of Hildesheim
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Blessed Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak
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Local briefWednesday, May 5, 2027 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2023: The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to May 5.
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The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.
Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995.
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.
American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
Riots broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadoran man in the chest.
After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.
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Chris Phelan, Irish-Australian rugby league player (born 1955)
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Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (born 1941)
2024
Bernard Hill, English actor (born 1944)
2024
César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1938)
2020
Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947)
2017
Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (born 1954)
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